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In Rainbows

CD-Charts > Music > Experimental Rock
by: Radiohead

Release Date January 01, 2008
This is the first Radiohead CD I've bought. Someone mentioned to me their sound was close to Coldplay and U2 so I picked up the CD.
This is a great CD. It took be five full listens before I started to really enjoy it but all the tracks are good and the music flows well from one song to the next.
Strong tracks include "Bodysnatchers", "All I Need" and "House of Cards".
Being the first time I've listened to their music, I would compare Radiohead more to the sound of Pink Floyd than Coldplay or U2 but I can see the comparisons with all these bands.

CD-Charts Position 2
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Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust

CD-Charts > Music > Experimental Rock
by: Sigur Ros

Release Date June 24, 2008
Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust (2008, XL) Sigur Ros's fifth studio album. ****

As any fan of Sigur Ros knows, they're fantastically strange. And anyone who does not like them would say the same, only changing that they're too strange, and that they're being different for the sake of being different. It's easy enough to say that the lyrical approach is pretentious; Sigur Ros sing in a Norwegian jibberish, encouraging their fans to make up their own words. No album better expresses their artsy tactfulness (or lack thereof, as some may say) than 2002's ( ), which had no titles, no lyrics, no acknowledgements, no nothing. The cover simply had the parenthesis and the band's name, and beyond that it was a mystery.

Now Sigur Ros ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 3
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Live from London 2006

CD-Charts > Music > Experimental Rock
starring: Fantomas, Melvin Big Band

Release Date August 26, 2008
I don't think it is necessary to tell you that if you're a big fan of Fantomas or the Melvins you should've bought this by now. It is a great DVD, and I have to disagree with the reviewer above me who said that the 'camera tricks' are 'cheesy'. It alternates between crystal clear high definition, and darker and grainy image with a light 'splash' of camera effects and graphics. This gotta be the first show I've seen with computer graphics added that don't suck a big one (like a few i've seen with big explosions, outer space images and planets coming at you, or some others with colorful distorted computer polygons or whatever, now that's cheesy).

It is done in my opinion in a very artistic taste and it succeeds in creating a proper atmosphere. The music ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 4
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Chemical Chords

CD-Charts > Music > Experimental Rock
by: Stereolab

Release Date August 19, 2008
something has been off for me with stereolab since marys death. i dont know why. i didnt know her, so it wasnt anything on a personal level. it was a certain charm, maybe?
after listening to this album multiple times, i do believe that the charm is back, there are still cerebral, challenging songs here, yes, but they are crisp, tight, short and amazing. yes, amazing. this is by FAR the most enjoyable stereolab release in years.
the strings, the hooks (all songs have at least one), the amazing sound, its all here. its all sterolab. this is a great album. i have been a fan for over a decade, and i do believe that this is the cd that i would recommend to beginners, and in time, might fall into my top choice myself. thanks, guys. love the cd.

CD-Charts Position 5
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The Best of (Special Edition 2CD)

CD-Charts > Music > Experimental Rock
by: Radiohead

Release Date June 03, 2008
Excuse me my hereticism of view , but after listening to this 2 cds back to back for 2 days on good cosmic mind organic self i could be convince that this is the reencarnation of Pink Floyd . The overall music mind set is just that , incredible music for our times , from early Chicago , to King Crimson ( horns and all ) , with some Young Marble Giants in the way , the Smiths and the Buzzcocks ... Anyway , buy it , steal it , borrow it , estimulate yourself with good soul cosmic music ... Inmerse in the times we live , insane and tragic and lovely fearful and who could really care for me if not myself ...

CD-Charts Position 6
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Heima

CD-Charts > Music > Experimental Rock
starring: Sigur Ros
directed by: Dean DeBlois

Release Date December 04, 2007
I take that back: a must watch, period! This music DVD contains 2 discs with material recorded during the band's 2006 homecoming tour through Iceland. Particularly special about it are the intimate (at times, unplugged) performances the band did for their fellow countrymen and women for free. Complementing these are some incredibly powerful (as in LOUD, get-off-your-seat-for-once) performances from their first four albums that are bound to have you give them all the respect they've earned as one of the best musical acts in the world today.

The first disc is peppered with interviews that give you an insider's view of the band and how they work together, their feelings about home and stardom and life at large. The second disc contains the complete performances without ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 7
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10,000 Days

CD-Charts > Music > Experimental Rock
by: Tool

Release Date May 02, 2006
Most epic, most rewarding, most musically impressive album this group have recorded to date.

love tool :)

CD-Charts Position 8
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Kid A

CD-Charts > Music > Experimental Rock
by: Radiohead

Release Date October 03, 2000
This is the best album cover ever in rock and roll history as far as I'm concerned, the music inside is just gravy. Nothing could top OK Computer, so Radiohead didn't even try - they very wisely went in a completely different direction into almost another genre altogether. OK Computer is basically a straight up rock record but Kid A is pretty much electronic music. The first song, "Everything in it's Right Place" is one of the best in Radiohead's live set - it sounds much better live is what I'm trying to say - but the studio version is still very captivating, especially with good speakers. "How To Disappear Completely" almost matches the intensity of "Exit Music" from the previous record. I think the peak of the record is "In Limbo", maybe the scariest song I've ever heard from ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 9
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Live in Santa Monica '72

CD-Charts > Music > Experimental Rock
by: David Bowie

Release Date July 22, 2008
I second most reviews about this famous and important live recording by Bowie & Spiders.

Just a note: Some Bowie talking between songs are cut out, compared to the Golden Years release some years ago. Compare for instance the intro to "Andy Warhol".

CD-Charts Position 10
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My Life in the Bush of Ghosts

CD-Charts > Music > Experimental Rock
by: Brian Eno, David Byrne

Release Date April 11, 2006
wonderful but it FAILS because of the reticence to include the orginally LATER deleted Qu'ran track....

this is a HOLY song and you can't let fundamentalists HIJACK the sacred. well, they can't but it was a corporation that ultimately cowered here.

a shame.

otherwise, 99.9% great album.

see the work eno did with jon hassel!